The Multimedia Browser

You can play and analyze audio and video files in MAXQDA’s Multimedia Browser.

To open an audio or video file in the Multimedia Browser, right-click the document in the “Document System” and select Open Audio File or Open Video File.

Alternatively, you can also open a media file directly from the “Document Browser”:

Open the text document to which the audio or video has been assigned (e.g. by double-clicking on its name in the “Document System”).

Click on the icon Open video file (file name) or Open audio file (file name) in the “Document Browser” toolbar.

If the text document is empty, i.e. there is no transcript, MAXQDA automatically opens the video in the Multimedia Browser as soon as you open the corresponding text document.

The Multimedia Browser looks like this:

The Multimedia Browser is composed of five areas:

The upper panel shows the video.

Underneath, there is a toolbar containing the functions to adjust the view and playback and the functions for coding. Here, you can also see the current playback position and the total time of the media file.

Beneath the toolbar, preview pictures are shown.

Underneath, you can see the waveform of sound of the media file, and below this, there is a time line where you can see the current playback position precise to the second.

Under the time line there is a bar for the timestamps of the transcripts.

At the very bottom is an area where the coded segments are visualized by bars.

For audio files, the video window and preview pictures are not shown.

The blue vertical line and the blue bar underneath the time line indicate the current playback position.

The following functions are available on the toolbar:

Control Panel – opens the window with playback options

Display previews – displays previews beneath the toolbar

Please note: The previews are loaded the first time you display a preview – this can take a few minutes with large files.

Set Link start / Link end – sets the beginning and end point of a document link

New memo (Alt/option+⇧+M) – creates a new memo in the current playback position

Previous memo (⇧+F3) –jumps to the memo to the left of the current clip position

Next memo (F3) – jumps to the memo to the right of the current clip position

Set clip start (F7) – sets the beginning of a clip segment at the current playback position

Set clip end (F8) – sets the end of a clip segment at the current playback position

Play clip (F9) – plays the segment selected on the waveform

Remove clip (F10) – removes current clip marks from the waveform

5 seconds back (⇧+F12) – jumps back 5 seconds from your current playback position

To start and stop playback, you can use the F4 or F5 or: • Pressing Strg (Windows) or the Shift button ⇧ (Mac) twice, or • if the Multimedia Browser window is open, by clicking in within the video window, the playback can also be started and stopped with the Space key.

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